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Spellcheck People
Posted by james-fleming on April 6, 2020 at 10:59 amI’ve said it before…but if you’re applying for a job (in this case a management position), and the first section of your resume is entitled Career Objectives, and it’s in a large bold font, all caps, it really puts you at an unnecessary immediate disadvantage to misspell career.
richard-imrie replied 4 years ago 19 Members · 49 Replies- 49 Replies
It shouldn’t be interpreted as outside the box thinking. Of course, if you ask the applicant if it does represent that, you may expose a first class BSer.
Other than grammar, punctuation and spelling the biggest problem I’ve found on resumes is the overestimation of abilities. Especially Autocad. I used to naively accept their word, but near the end of my business days we used to “test” them to observe their stated capabilities. ????
I’ve been around AutoCad since Release 6. I still know very little. The things I repeat over and over are fine. Figuring out how to do something different, not so much. I would fail your test in the first two minutes. I would make a lousy employee anyway, so that would be a good way to weed me out.
- Posted by: @holy-cow
I would fail your test in the first two minutes.
So would I! I just hire em??, I don??t actually do that stuff. ????
@flga
My wife and I used to work for a larger engineering firm where she managed the CAD group. She developed a comprehensive test for those that made it through the interview process. Not only did it cull the herd it also helped with future training assessments.
I live and die by spell check. I was the the perfect engineering school candidate, I was points away from a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT and basically hot point for spelling my name correctly on the verbal. In university, before the days of spell check, I had a cartography professor recommend I use a pocket speller on tests. It helped out for years.
- Posted by: @flgaPosted by: @holy-cow
I would fail your test in the first two minutes.
So would I! I just hire em??, I don??t actually do that stuff. ????
This is the motto of the developers on my Applied Technology (AT) team…”we don’t use the software, we just build it.”
I on the other hand, have used AutoCAD since R11, Microstation since J and TBC since 3.0…as well as many other softwares.
T. Nelson – SAM, LLC I have always cringed when I would read some of the resumes listed “objectives” and felt that they were not setting a very high bar for themselves if their goal was to become a Instrument Operator or some other such and such.
My objective has been and always will be to be “The Supreme Exalted Ruler of The Entire Universe”
I always thought that if I started a business, it would have the word intergalactic in it. Like Intergalactic Formulations and Calculations or Intergalactic Fly Rod Line Guides, Inc.
My aspirations aren’t as high as yours, but they’re right for me.
- Posted by: @john-putnam
I was the the perfect engineering school candidate, I was points away from a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT and basically hot point for spelling my name correctly on the verbal
I always say my SAT scores were perfect for a career that combines measurement with law – exact same score in verbal & math.
I started off my education as a mechanical engineer but wised up after I figured out, foolishly, that I was on the path to being stuck working for my families business for life or even worse, working for Freightliner on the other side of the table. Instead, I choose to be a glaciologist and ended up surveying on an icefield.
I started off as a architecture major, but I always say I failed the first class they use to weed out the students that don’t have what it takes to be an architect: Arrogance 101.
not really true—i’m very arrogant 😉
I use to work at a medium sized CE firm that was owned (and managed) by a retired lieutenant colonel that spent his army career at the NSA. Correct spelling was very big on his list of “minimum requirements”.
He had an approach to projects that required four key personnel ingredients, the grunt, the nerd, the artist and the cook. Each of these could be made up of one person or multiple people depending on the size of the project.
The grunt collected all the necessary ingredients like field data or records.
The nerd applied good mathematics and sound engineering theory.
The artist put the project on paper at the direction of the cook.
The cook was the one that put all the ingredients together and “served” the dish to the client. The cook was the only one that the boss wanted the client to see. His theory was plan production was like making sausage, nobody would ever eat it if they saw what went into it or how it was made. The cook was also referred to as the “show pony” sometimes. The position didn’t really take any engineering skills other than the lingo, but did require sharp people skills and nice attire. The “LT” at times utilized every intelligent and pleasant female he could find for this position. It worked well in the ’80s.
Spelling was a big problem. “Spell Check” meant bi-focals and a large hard bound Merriam Webster. And any one of the key personnel could be responsible for preparing written reports or specs. This problem plagued several projects and drove the boss nuts.
One of my grunt tasks was to scour the codes and construction specs for anything applicable to that specific project. The boss saw some of my notes where I had corrected some of the spelling on everybody else’s fodder. I hadn’t really ever thought of myself as any sort of expert on spelling, but misspelled words just seemed to jump off the page at me. He was impressed with my knack.
I was elevated to “assistant cook”. Nothing went out the door until I had poured over it for corrections. I wasn’t really thrilled with the task, but it kept me out of field. At the time I enjoyed the break.
I spent the rest of my time there writing contracts and construction specifications. It was an odd place to find a high-school-dropout-turned-surveyor, but it worked. 😉
I used to work with a PE from New Hampshire who interned at a hometown engineering/survey firm when she was in college at Bucknell. She tells a story how one day she was typing something their surveyor had written and changed the wording a little. The office manager noticed and told her “Oh no…we never change a word that Bob writes; he went to Dartmouth and he’s not afraid to let everyone know.”
I’m still trying to figure out how to spellcheck people. Unless, of course, you meant to type, “Spellcheck, people”. ???? ???
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- Posted by: @wendell
I’m still trying to figure out how to spellcheck people. Unless, of course, you meant to type, “Spellcheck, people”. ???? ???
The ‘grammar check’ that infests several softwares that I use is truly a two edged sword. Sometimes it’s spot on. Sometimes I’m convinced it was written by someone on the other side of the globe to which English is a second language.
- Posted by: @paden-cash
The ‘grammar check’ that infests several softwares that I use is truly a two edged sword. Sometimes it’s spot on. Sometimes I’m convinced it was written by someone on the other side of the globe to which English is a second language.
I too find that grammar check often suggests changes I don’t want to make, but usually and overall I am glad for the opportunities to consider its suggestions.
. Beware if someone compliments you by saying “your excellent at using spell check” because there lying.
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